Gap

Retail sales: Signs of life, but not yet a rising tide

source: BloggingStocks

Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT), Target Corp. (TGT), Costco Wholesale (COST), Gap Inc (GPS), Nordstrom, Inc (JWN)

Published Fri, Nov 6

Cramer on BloggingStocks: A monumental run

source: BloggingStocks

Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Market matters, International Business Machines (IBM), Gap Inc (GPS), Cramer on BloggingStocks

Published Mon, Oct 19

A Gap for international growth

source: just-style.com

The San Francisco based firm is also planning a return to television advertising in November following a two-year absence, as well as expanding its outlet stores, and launching online businesses in Canada and the United Kingdom in 2010. It also said it intends to reduce square footage by...

Published Sun, Oct 18

Donald Fisher, legendary retail giant, dies

source: BloggingStocks

Back in the late 1960s -- when the hippie movement was in full force -- Donald Fisher started a blue jeans store in San Francisco. Yes, it eventually turned into a retail empire, called The Gap (NYSE: GPS). The company now has more than 3,100 stores and $14.5 billion in revenues.

Published Mon, Sep 28

Gap, Inc. Gives Warm Fuzzies with 2010 Olympics Youth Donation

source: PR Inside (Pressemitteilung)

The Foundation for Global Sports Development (GSD) is treating 50 at-risk kids from the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco to the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games free of charge. But what does an at-risk kid from California have to wear in a Canadian winter? San Francisco-based Gap Inc., o...

Published Fri, Sep 25

Twelve straight months of retail sales declines

source: BloggingStocks

Some retailers actually showed gains. TJMaxx (NYSE: TJX) and Old Navy, a Gap (NYSE: GPS) company, for example, saw year-over-year sales increases, though upscale stores generally sustained declines. The action on the discount side could be an early sign that the consumer is ready to pla...

Published Fri, Sep 4

American Eagle Outfitters bombs with comps in the second quarter

source: BloggingStocks

American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO), a fashion retailer that competes with Gap (NYSE: GPS) and Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF), didn't do too well in Q2. Total sales went down 5%, and earnings per share on a GAAP basis fell a most awful 50% to 14 cents. According to Bloomberg, the adjus...

Published Fri, Aug 28

Is the tide turning for Gap?

source: just-style.com

The results come after two years of cost cutting and expense management at the San Francisco based retailer - although sales worryingly continue to fall in all its divisions. Its best performing unit was Old Navy, but there is still work to be done at the Gap, Banana Republic and internatio...

Published Mon, Aug 24